The literature on the relationship between the unemployment rate and wage bargaining fails to separate the offsetting … effects of a reduction in competition associated with centralized bargaining and the increased awareness of unemployment … unemployment rate in countries that have switched to centralized wage-bargaining arrangements, the industry wage is not …

inflation-unemployment process. The results provide some evidence in favor of the Lucas critique by showing that the short …-run unemployment-inflation trade-off tends to improve in countries that are successful in providing low and stable inflation …

employs the same or another worker, the vacancy rate increases and the unemployment rate declines. However, the scheme …

Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite … relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … unemployment declines were positively correlated with real GDP growth and, to a lesser extent, negatively with the real minimum …

employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with … with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long …-term unemployment in the medium term. Conversely, large upfront, or gradual but significant, comprehensive labor market policies have a …

employment and the level of unemployment in a two-sector economy with a heterogenous work force. Efficiency wage considerations …

This paper provides an assessment of the consistency of unemployment and output forecasts. We show that, consistent … with Okun’s Law, forecasts of real GDP growth and the change in unemployment are negatively correlated. The Okun … coefficient—the responsiveness of unemployment to growth—from forecasts is fairly similar to that in the data for various …